Improvement in iron fences



J. H. VAN DORN. Iron Fence.

No. 210,826. Patented Dec. 10, 1878.

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UNITED STATES PATENT UFFICE.

JAMES H. VAN DOB-N, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN IRON FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210.826, dated December 10, 1878 3 application filed October 1, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, James H. VAN DORN, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Iron Fences; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which the figure is an elevation of a picket, with one of the stringers in section to show the fastening-Wedge.

My present invention consists in securing the stringers to. the pickets of iron fences by means of wedges driven down between the stringers and pickets, in the following manner:

A is an iron picket, made angular in cross section, and B B the iron stringers thereon, which may be in the form of flat bars, or provided with down wardl y-proj ectin g side flanges, G. The wedges are shown at D, and are each formed with at double head, and driven down on one side of the picket, between it and the stringers, one part, c, of the head resting upon Having thus described my invention, what A I claim as new is In an iron fence, the combination, with the notched or recessed pickets A and the stringers B, of the wedges D, havin g double heads, one part of which enters the recesses in the pickets and the other part rests on the stringers, substantially as described.

JAMES H. VAN DORN.

Witnesses:

WM. K. SMITH, L. B. WHITNY. 

